PBS looks at legend of Ruben Salazar

5:21 PM,
Apr. 28, 2014

Written by

Mike Hughes
For The Salinas Californian

"He became an icon for the left in this town," said Phillip Rodriguez, director of a PBS profile. "He was being portrayed in kind of crudely drawn portraits under freeway underpasses and things."

Much of that came after he was killed, at 42, by a tear-gas canister during a day of protests. Soon, he seemed to have martyr status. "I was always perplexed by how people were in awe of him ? People wanted to be near me because I was Ruben Salazar's daughter," Stephanie Salazar Cook said. ...